The Hon Mark Butler MP – Parliament of Australia

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Member for Port Adelaide, South Australia

Positions: Minister for Social Inclusion; Minister for Housing and Homelessness; Minister for Mental Health and Ageing; Minister Assisting the Prime Minister on Mental Health Reform
Party: Australian Labor Party
Chamber: House of Representatives

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Contact details

Parliament Office

PO Box 6022
House of Representatives
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600

Telephone:: (02) 6277 7280
Fax:: (02) 6273 4138

Electorate Office

(Principal Office)

15 Semaphore Road
Semaphore, SA, 5019

Postal address
PO Box 2038
Port Adelaide, SA, 5015

Telephone:: (08) 8242 0733
Fax:: (08) 8242 0744

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Websites: Personal website; Party website; Ministerial Home Page (Mental Health and Ageing); Ministerial Home Page (Housing and Homelessness; Parliamentary Education Office

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www.aph.gov.au/M_Butler_MP

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Electorate details

Port Adelaide, South Australia

Biography

Party positions
Personal
Qualifications and occupation before entering Federal Parliament
Electorate
Honours

Parliamentary service

Elected to the House of Representatives for Port Adelaide, South Australia, 2007 and 2010.

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Ministerial appointments

Parliamentary Secretary for Health from 9.6.09 to 14.9.10.
Minister for Mental Health and Ageing from 14.9.10.
Minister Assisting the Prime Minister on Mental Health Reform from 12.9.11.
Minister for Social Inclusion from 14.12.11.
Minister for Housing and Homelessness from 4.2.13.

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Committee service

House of Representatives Standing: Legal and Constitutional Affairs from 19.2.08 to 15.6.09.
Joint Statutory: Public Accounts and Audit from 18.2.08 to 15.6.09; Public Works from 18.2.08 to 15.6.09; Parliamentary Library from 18.2.08 to 9.6.09.

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Party positions

Delegate, ALP State Conference (SA) from 1993.
Delegate, ALP National Conference from 1998.
President, ALP (SA) 1997-98.
Member, ALP National Executive from 2000.

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Personal

Born 8.7.1970, Canberra, ACT.
Married.

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Qualifications and occupation before entering Federal Parliament

BA(Jur), LLB(Hons)(Adel).
MIntRel (Deakin).
Union official 1992-2007.

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Electorate

Description: outer metropolitan.
Location: northern Adelaide; it includes the suburbs of Alberton, Beverley, Birkenhead, Cheltenham, Findon, Kilkenny, Largs Bay, Mansfield Park, Mawson Lakes, North Haven, Ottoway, Parafield Gardens, Paralowie, Pennington, Port Adelaide, Queenstown, Rosewater, Salisbury Downs, Seaton, Semaphore, Woodville and West Croydon. It also includes Torrens and Garden Islands.
Area: 253 sq km (approx.).
Electors enrolled: 104 308 (at 21.8.10).
Industries: cement, electricity, flour mills, live sheep export, manufacturing industry, motion pictures, petroleum storage, police academy, salt, sewerage treatment, stevedoring, submarine construction, waste disposal/scrap metal merchants and wool stores.
State electorates: Port Adelaide includes the South Australian House of Assembly electorates of Cheltenham and Port Adelaide, and parts of Colton, Croydon, Enfield, Lee, Ramsay and Taylor.

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Honours

Awarded Centenary Medal, 2003.

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